five to eight inches long ; cauline leaves shortly petioled, three- 
to five-lobed, cut like the radical ones, all rather thick and 
bright green. Inflorescence corymbose, silkily hairy, the 
branches rather spreading, inclined, one or more flowered ; 
bracts lanceolate, sub-erect, bracteoles linear. lowers two 
inches long from the tip of the sepals to that of the spur, 
broad, deep azure blue, silkily pubescent; lateral sepals 
broadly oblong, obtuse ; dorsal produced into a broad, inflated, 
conical, decurved, obtuse spur about two-thirds as long as the 
sepal. Dorsal petals almost black, the limb erect, two lobed, 
the spurs funnel-shaped with decurved tips; lateral petals 
greenish, their limb deflexed, unequally two-lobed, with 
prominent hairs on the face. Ripe carpels hairy.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1.—Petals magnified. 
